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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
Don't Like Surprises.

III don't like surprises, once said a
little girl, 81 think they're nars'y." To
tell the truth, so do most of us, although
we feel obliged to look politely pleased
when our friends pop some unexpected
Jack-in-the-boX of an event upon us.
A surprise must be of a very exception
ally delightful nature to prove i'll the
least welcome. Especially is this true
i'll the case of visits.
81 should not feel at liberty to visit
my own sister without announcement
of my Intentions" said lady who was
heartily welcome wherever she chose to
go. Gin fact, never saw the person
upon whose household should be will
ing to take the liberty of descending
unexpectedly"
Her principle is the one to be followed
III nine cases out of ten. 1t is only fair
to say that the people who violate it
usually do so with the best intentions.
Believing that their friends enjoy their
society, they innocently imagine that
that the pleasure will be enhanced by a
sudden burst of that social sunshine.
81 had invited friend to spend Sun
day with me- said an over worked
teacher, recently, "and specified in
writing her that | would meet her on a
certain train on Sunday morning
Friday evening | was working like
Trojan over my examination papers, in
order to be ready for her, when in she
burst, rosy and smiling.
81 thought I'd come before you ex-
pected me for II surprise - she said
"Thc pleasure for which [ had begun
working was spoiled by the conscious
ness that the next week S tasks would be
deplorably belindhand.
This is such busy world that it is
absurd to think of disposing of any but
perhaps an idle persons time without
reference to his convenience.
Then, too, i'll the case of visits, few
households are moved by machinery SO
perfectly adjusted that it is not to be
disarranged by the arrival of the unex-
pected.
"Aunt Mary came last night without
word of warming" said good house
wife, "and the house was full of teach
ers from the convention. / had to put
bed in the trunk-room for the chill
dren."
"Why will she always try to surprise
us, grOaned her sister. "The last time
she came to my house Aunt Sophy was
there, and is they don't speak, we sat
and walked on pins all the time.''
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
How They Directa Stranger

Don't know; ask next man.
Third stone house after You cross two
roads.
Second house after You pass the cabin
with big black dog.
When you come to ~ barnyard with a
lame duck, halloa to the house. That
farmer knows everybody.
It's the second house beyond the one
that has a red barn with a big door
chalkod up. That's Bob Smiths ac-
count of his chicken crop.
Take the fork of the road in your left
hand: then go ON till You come to the
big elm. When you get there, if any
body comes along, ask them.
It's just three miles and an eighth.
There are seven houses on the left and
six on the right. That makes it the
fourteenth Go straight ahead.
1t is about two looks from here. Go
to the top of that hill and take look.
Then go as far as you saw; take another
look. When you get there, you'll see
it.
Turn around the little church to the
right Keep the ridge ON your left.
Go half mile, three-quarters, perhaps
a mile. If you know the man you're
after, you'll find him along there.
Take your second right hand road
cross two left hand roads, and take your
third. Don't go up the first right
hand, but take the second There's a
well sweep in the front yard, and a
wheel pump in the barnyard.
After you pass a barnyard with red
wagon, and a white mare with a SPAWN
in her hind leg, you'll see a stone house
Of one story with roof sunk in. That
amt the house, but if the dog don't bite
you, you can find out there.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
A Cure for Whooping Cough.

Maryhill is a large and important
suburb OF Glasgow Recently travel
ing clndyman and rag -gatherer, with n
cart drawn by an ass, drew up in front
OF row of houses known as Pirrat's
row, little off the highway Mt Mary
hill, Glasgow. Two children living isl
this quarter were suffering from whoop-
ing cough, After short conversation
with the proprietor of the ass. the
mothers OF the two children took up
position one on each side of the animal.
One woman took one of the children
and passed it below the ASS belly to
the other woman, the childs face being
toward the ground. The woman on the
other side caught hold of the child. and
giving 1t gentle somersault. handed it
back to the other woman over the ass,
the chlld's face being turned toward the
sky. The process having been repeated
three times, the child was taken away
to the house, and then the second child
was similarly treated. While this was
gong on two other children were
brought to undergo the magical cure. In
order that the operation may have its
due effect the ass must not be forgotten,
and at the close Of the ceremony each
mother must carry her child to the head
Of the animal and allow it to eat some
thing, such as bread or biscuits, out of
the chllds lap. This proceeding hav-
ing been performed in turn by the four
mothers, the prescribed course was con
cluded. When it began there were not
many people present, but before it was
finished quite number of spectators
had gathered. From inquiries made
later it seems the mothers are THOROUGH
~ SATISFIED that their children are the
better for the enchantment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
ONE SORT OF NEIGHBOR.
Neither a Borrower Nor Il Lender
Be, in Application.

There are emergencies when it seems
necessary to trouble a neighbor to lend
the lacking convenience, but such oc-
casions should be rare as good manage
ment can make them. A loose habit of
forgetting to keep ones kitchen sup
piled favors the practice of running
next door or across the street to borrow
cup of sugar, an ounce of tea, loaf
of bread, cake of soap, or whatever
the need may be; but such a practice
stamps the mistress of the house as Il
slovenly, improvident housekeeper,
whose careless ways stand in strenuous
need of reform. Perhaps it is only
thoughtlessness in many cases that al
lows such i'll management. and the
fault when discovered will be reformed
A kitchen slate, hung conspicuously
on the wall with pencil attached, will
be a great factor in working reform.
Let the housekeeper write down each
article asits want is discovered, and let
her also put down such things as she
finds herself nearly ont OF, not waiting
to actually see the bottom of the barrel
or box before making note of their
emptiness. Then teach whoever If is
who visits the store to always study the
slate before going out. In this way,
without much trouble to any one, the
foolish system of running out to borrow
will pass out OF existence, and the
neighbOrS with whom the friendly ex-
changes have been made will in time
learn to feel backward about borrowing
from those who never borrow from them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
A VAIL FROM THE FARMERS.
Their Sons Won't Work and Their
Daughters Wear Rust1es.

'It's no use trying to get farm help
now" said old Farmer Seeley, as he
dropped into an old-fashioned seat at
the corner store in Newton, n. J., "you
can't do it. The rising generation
won't work on farm, and the immi-
grants are shipped to the far West as
soon rs they land i'll Castle Garden.
The question of help is the most seri-
Gus one for the farmers of New Jersey
to consider at present. The land is
good; as a rule we have plenty of
rain, so that there is no excuse for not
having good crops except that they are
not properly attended to. There is not
q farmer within twenty miles of here
who has help enough. The farmers
boys, as soon as they are able to work,
run off to the cities, or else are sent to
boarding school, or are apprenticed to
some business or trade; and as for the
girls nowadays, they are absolutely use
less on farm. They learn to sing,
needlework, bat they know next to
nothing about the duties of a farmers
wife.
''As II matter of fact farmers daugh-
ters Will not take farmers sons for hus-
bands. They want fancy city chaps
who can support them in idleness and
luxury. The girl of the period in the
country wears cOrsetS and bustles, and
uses paint and powder with as much
abandon as her city sisters. She is
above milking the cows and scrubbing
the churns, and if she is obliged to
work at all she would prefer the sitting,
hot air OF a big factory to the freedom and
healthfulness of domestic service in the
country.
"Thirty or even ten years ago it was
comparatively easy to get all the farm
help we wanted up here in Sussex
county The country was then full of
lusty Germans and hishmen, fresh
from the ocean voyage, who were willing
to work cheap in order 10 get initiated
into the business of farming Hun
dreds of these newcomers worked hard
for wears and at last got married and
settled down on little farms of THEN
own. They made tip-top citizens and
excellent farmers. But all this has
changed. At the present time you can
not induce q greenhOrn from Castle |
Garden, for love or money, to hire out |
to farmer They usually have friends |
ahead of them in this country, nova |
days, who ship them right off to the !
West, where they can make more money |
and have infinitely better chances than
in the overcrowded farm lands of the |
East. About the only thing that New
Jersey farms are good for now, except |
when locate nearby the big cities, is
grazing and pasturing. 1t takes only |
Slight labor to handle cattle, particularly |
when we buy about all our own feed,
not having the help to raise much
grain.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
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]. 4 portion of Iha Cprtejrr Of .Eohn WiIte.
Booth, penetrated by the bullet Of BoSt n On,
beh; 2. Wdte1td arm, Gmpstt1ted Ly a cqn
non shot al on sburq; 3. Skull of lin
Re ms sqwT'r, perforated 'rih sCren bull
hoteS-sdted an Hy7n' ng Territory.
tree. A year or two afterwards its owner re.
visiting the battle field. dis covered his lost
member and brought it to the museum. No
40S5 consists of three human vertebrR
mounted on a stand: and beside them hangs a
glass phial marked 4,08T. The history in tn,
surgical records Of the museum describes the
course of a cOnOidal carbne ball through these
carvical vertebTse, and states in concise medi-
cal language that the phial contains pOr-
ton Of the spinal cord from the same CerviCal
region; both specimens from a case where
death occurred a few hours after injury, April
26, 1865 These are the S ,ientific records of
the death wounds of John Wilkes Booth. and
1T Is strange fate that has placed these re-
minders of the murdere- few feet above the
spot whe-e he shot down his illustrious vic
tim.
On black stand, Learing the Number 1885,
Is shattered bone with this staten mt: The
right tibnla and tibula. comminut.d in
three shafts by a round she'll Major General
Dan. +. Sickles, U. S. Volunteer, (iettvsbu-g
July ,. Amputated in the lower third OF the
thigh, by Surgeon T. Sim L. S. Vols, on the
field. Contributed by the subject"
One of the eases is filled with skulls which
show wounds from arrow-Leads and cuts from
tomahawks and sabres. The skull of an
American Indian, killed by CHILEAN troops
shows n ne sabre cuts. Near it is the skull of
another Indian with seven bullet holes, r.
c lived from American troops CT trpprers.
There are Indian arrows taken from the dead
bodies of our soldiers on the plains The
BrrOw-Eeads are made OF baIrel-hoop5, AMI
they are 90 shsrp they can pierre any skull.
One is shown still sticking through the sh5ul-
ler-blQde Of 3 buffalo. The point Of the
"a Gw Is p'fsi'ha II the bone, the arrow tip
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
THE FLY OF ,EIGHTY-SEyEN.
How He Differs from the Flies of
Other Days.
[From tie Albany Argus. ]

There is something about q wasp or a
hornet or humble bee that commands
respect. You can walk along lonely
country road and when you see nice
fat berry on bush you step up with
the intention of picking it. Right I'M
der that bush may be a wasp's nest, but
so long AS You don't put your foot in il
you are safe. The minute your toe
touches that nest you wish you were
several miles away. But when those
wasps have had their little discussion
with you and finished it, they go away
and don't bother around at all waiting
for another chance to do you up. Nc
man living can accuse any kind of a bee
with the crime of provoking an attack.
They don't do it. When you attack
them they are always ready for business,
but never did one commence operations
himself.
Not so with fly. The fly of the cur
rent season differs from his forefathers
in physical makeup. The fly of some
seasons ago was made on another plan
altogether. He was manufactured on
the draught-horse system, big and heavy
and lazy. He might have been seen
buzzing up and down a window pane by
the hour, butting his brains out and
turning all sorts of handsprings in o
slow, sedate manner that suggested
coming death. But when the window
pane exercise grew stale to him, he de-
veloped his muscular system by endeav-
oring to haul off a chunk of pie 400
times bigger than he. The latter-day
fly is constructed ON a very different
plan, as before remarked. He is PAGER,
as a horseman would call him, small,
blithe, little and full of energy. His
limbs are small and his eyesight good,
and the amount of pure, unauthorized
cussedness in his composition is posi-
lively alarming.
eating and drinking. In fact, the
amount of appetite for drink in this
years fly is largely disproportionate to
the size of the little devil. His bump
of inquisitiveness protrlldes fearfully.
The only thing ON the mind of 'S7's fly
is how to carry around that bump of in
uuisitiveness. He has seen almost the
entire world already, having been in
motion since April Fools Day, but only
the outside of things. Now, having
gone over the outside of almost every
thing, he has commenced at the start
ing point and is ''doing" the inside of
things. Ink bottles, beer glasses, but
ter dishes, paste pots and milk cups
seem to possess a never ending variety
for him, fund of unexplored country.
Men who have tried it frequently say
they cannot ge- glass of beer down any
1n,,rar without swallowing from one to
six flies.
In the Silly night time, when former
Iy the fly put in his three hours sleep
ing, this years fly explores the inside of
your ear, and studies anatomy by
under the single cover over
your person.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
A CHILD'S TEARS.
A Beautiful Pen Picture Drawn by
NJ. Quad.

/ Once when Il child was i'll unto death
| its mother kneeled and prayed to
/ Heaven that its life might be spared.
/ As she prayed and wept an angel
softly took its place beside her and
/ whispered:
| "Heaven has sent me i'll answer to
/ your prayer. Here is the mirror of
/ life; watch well and tell me what you
see"
/ And then as the mother wiped away
her tears and held the mirror before her
the angel asked:
''What is in the picture!'
at is that of fair-faced bOyof TO-"
care there tears i'll his eyes ?"
There are no tears
Then the angels of Heaven are weep
ing for him. Look again and tell me
what you see.
'"This time it is youth of 10. 1t is
the same boy as before, but older grown,
and the face is not SO gentle.
"Are there tears in his eyes =
''There are no tears.
''Then there is sadness among the
angels in Heaven. When human eyes
are dry of tears the heart is full OF evil. !"
Then the mother looked again, and
when the angel asked her what she saw
she answered:
Gone Just coming to mans estate.
1t is the same face as before, but it is III
the darkness, and [ see lines of evil
"Look closer and tell me if you see
tears.
''There are no tears.
''Then there are griefs in Heaven,
and heart-aches on earth. He who
never weeps has gone far wrong. Look
again and tell me what YOU see.
"This time it is a man in cOnvict's
garb, and his evil look appalls my
heart
Are there no tears in his eyes =
''There are no tears.
''Thcn the angels of Heaven weep.
Without tears there can be no repen-
lance. l charge you to look once more. "
This time it is one lying dead i'll the
Ctarkness-no watchers-nO one to weep
nothing but the gloom of night around
him.
''And are there tears upon the face of
the dead p
''There are no tears.
''Then, alas it is another soul con-
signed to everlasting darkness Turn
the glass and look for the last time.
What do you behold p
"A child-my child-upon its bed of
sickness. Oh Angel of Mercy, l pray
thee to spare its sweet young life :"
care there tears q
"Aye. there are tears.
''Then / shall kiss them away and
the angels of Heaven will rejoice as l
bear the innocent spirit within the gold
en- gates"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
WHY BOILERS EXPLODE.
The Theory of Boiler Inspector Car.
roll. of Detroit.

Mr.. Carroll drew diagram of boiler
head in outline upon the table. cts
! like this he proceeded to explain,
slowly and deliberately. Here's the
water line in this boiler" And he
/ drew a line across the circle.
''Now it is the opinion of boiler men
and other experts that the danger from
minute flaws and assures in the shell of
of the boiler lies below the water line
and not above it. But L have reached
the conclusion that from these little
flaws that go undetected upon the most
minute examination, the entire danger
is entirely above the water line. Now
mark you I have found from long and
careful observation that from seventy
five to eighty per cent. of all boiler ex-
p,OsiOns occur at about o'clock in the
morning or about the time when the en-
CINE is being started up. And that
fully, if not wholly, the balance of the
percentage happen at the starting time
in the afternoon. Every locomotive
blows up, you will perceive, at about
the time it was leaving the depot. | was
surprised at the discovery ofall this, in
asmuch as at the starting time in the
morning boilers have no more than
about seventy-tive pounds pressure of
steam. That is not enough to explode,
[ may say, the most defective of shells.
Then [ thought it out and came to the
conclusion that all of the danger lay
above the water line and from the
minute assures and punctures in the
shell. 1t is in this way: When the
boiler is shut down after a days work
the condensation forms II vacuum; but
through the little chinks and leaks
above the water line the air rushes i'll.
In the morning when the boiler is fired
up and steam is generated to seventy
five pounds this air cannot be elected as
rapilv as the vacuum forces it in. There
is then IL the boiler sixty per cent. of
water and forty per cent. of air. The
first revolution thoroughly mixed the
water and air and at seventy-tive pounds
pressure the air is expanded with great
force, and Mt this first revolution the
boiler IS exploded.
ITO remedy this every engineer in
Detroit is instructed before starting his
fire to pull his safety valve wide open
until steam is seen to come through
and then shut the valve door and go
on.
"Boilcrs used for agricultural pun
poses are very liable to explode in con
sequence of taking water from barrel
through neglect to see that the barrel is
kept full. If the barrel is kept full all
would be well, but it is allowed to be
come empty or partly SO, and then the
pump sucks air, and when the air is III
aud fully expanded the boiler must
burst.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11

having passed first through the body of the
beast. Another instance of the force with
which an arrow is driven by an Indian bow is
shown in piece from the door of stage
The vehicle was attacked by Comanches near
Bellas River, Texas, Sept. l, 1870 The wood,
about an inch and half thick, is pierced by
an arrowhead, the point projecting some dis
lance beyond. OF The passengers and guards
only two escaped. One of the soldiers received
an arrow in the head and three gunshot flesh
wounds-one in the ann, another in the leg
and one in the breast. In this condition he
travelled one hundred and sixty miles across
the plains on foot. When he reached the post
hospital at Fort Concha, Texas, seven days
after the fight, he was mentally bright and
clear: but on Sept. 10 he died. The skull of
this man shows an arrowhead firmly imbed-
ded in the petrous portion of the right tenn
poral bone-a wound of itself, it would SEEM
sufficient to cause instant DEATH
There are many more objects of interest in
the Museum. But here are surely enough hor-
rors for one letter; and the choice of subject
for our next may be more fortunate.
KAL KNICKERBoCKER.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
To Cut Glass.

The way in which glass may best be
cut with scissors is told in the Pottery
Gaaette, London Glass may he cut
under water with great ease, to almost
any shape. with Il pair of shears or
strong scissors. Two things are neceS--
sary for success. First, the lass must
be kept quite level in the water while
the scissors are applied; and secondly,
to avoid risk, it is better to perform the
cutting by taking off small pieces at the
corners and along the edges, and to le-
duce the shape gradually to that reQuir-
ed. The softer glasses cut the best, md
the scissors need not I've very sharp.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11

MEN, it has been said, may be tatooed
with their special beliefs like so many
South Sea Islanders; but real human
heart with Divine love in it, beats
with the same glow under all the pat
terms of all earth's thousand tribes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11

COURAGE that grows from constitution
often. torsakes the man when he has
occasion for il: courage which arises
from sense OF duty acts in uniform
manner.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11

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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11

\ New Yorker has invented IA vacuum, but
the authorities in Washington refuse to grant
him Eatent on it, They say it is a barcfaced
infringement ON dudes head.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
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BRONCHITIS is cureo by frequent small
doses of Piso's Cure for Consumption.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
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